The Rankin-Selberg method for automorphic distributions
Stephen D. Miller, Wilfried Schmid
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38 pages, to appear in "Representation Theory and Automorphic Forms", Procedings of an International Symposium at Seoul National University, February 2005, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Wilfried Schmid, and Jae-Hyun Yang, editors, Birkhauser, Boston
This paper describes our method of pairing automorphic distributions. This represents a third technique for obtaining the analytic properties of automorphic L-functions, in addition to the existing methods of integral representations (Rankin-Selberg) and Fourier coefficients of Eisenstein series (Langlands-Shahidi). We recently used this technique to establish new cases of the full analytic continuation of the exterior square L-functions. The paper here gives an exposition of our method in two special, yet representative cases: the Rankin-Selberg tensor product L-functions for PGL(2,Z), as well as for the exterior square L-functions for GL (4,Z).
We prove a refinement of the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture proposed by Ichino-Ikeda and N. Harris for unitary groups under some local conditions. We need to assume some expected properties of L-packets and some part of the local Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture.
Given unitary automorphic cuspidal representations $π$ and $π'$ defined on $GL_n(\mathbb{A}_E)$ and $GL_m(\mathbb{A}_F)$, respectively, with $E$ and $F$ solvable algebraic number fields we deduce a prime number theorem for the Rankin-Selberg L-function $L(s,AI_{E/\mathbb{Q}}(π)\times AI_{F/\mathbb{Q}}(π'))$ under a self-contragredient assumption and a suitable Galois invariance condition on the representations, where $AI_{K/\mathbb{Q}}$ denotes the automorphic induction functor for any number field $K/\mathbb{Q}$.
For Kleinian groups acting on hyperbolic three-space, we prove factorization formulas for both the Selberg zeta-function and the automorphic scattering matrix. We extend results of Venkov and Zograf from Fuchsian groups, to Kleinian groups, and we give a proof that is simple and extendable to more general groups.
We prove a division algebra analogue of an ultrametric inequality of Bushnell--Henniart for Rankin--Selberg conductors. Under the Jacquet--Langlands correspondence, the two versions are equivalent.
We formulate and prove the archimedean period relations for Rankin-Selberg convolutions for $\mathrm{GL}(n)\times \mathrm{GL}(n-1)$. As a consequence, we prove the period relations for critical values of the Rankin-Selberg L-functions for $\mathrm{GL}(n)\times \mathrm{GL}(n-1)$ over arbitrary number fields.
In this paper, we will give a certain formula for the Riemann zeta function that expresses the Riemann zeta function by an infinte series consisting of $K$-Bessel functions. Such an infinite series expression can be regarded as an analogue of the Chowla-Selberg formula. Roughly speaking, the Chowla-Selberg formula is the formula that expresses the Epstein zeta-function by an infinite series consisting of $K$-Bessel functions. In addition, we also give certain analogues of the Chowla-Selberg formula for Dirichlet $L$-functions and $L$-functions associated with holomorphic cusp forms. Moreover, …
We study the critical numbers of the Rankin-Selberg convolution of arbitrary pairs of cohomological cuspidal automorphic representations and we parametrize these critical numbers by certain 1-dimensional subrepresentations attached to the corresponding pair of finite-dimensional representations of the related general linear groups.
There are many Rankin-Selberg integrals representing Langlands $L$-functions, and it is not apparent what the limits of the Rankin-Selberg method are. The Dimension Equation is an equality satisfied by many such integrals that suggests a priority for further investigations. However there are also Rankin-Selberg integrals that do not satisfy this equation. Here we propose an extension and reformulation of the dimension equation that includes many additional cases. We explain some of these cases, including the new doubling integrals of the authors, Cai and Kaplan. We then show how this same equa…
Using Hecke triangle surfaces of finite and infinite area as examples, we present techniques for thermodynamic formalism approaches to Selberg zeta functions with unitary finite-dimensional representations $(V,χ)$ for hyperbolic surfaces (orbifolds) $Γ\backslash\mathbb{H}$ as well as transfer operator techniques to develop period-like functions for $(Γ,χ)$-automorphic cusp forms. This leads to several natural conjectures. We further show how to extend these results to the billiard flow on the underlying triangle surfaces, and study the convergence of transfer operators along sequences of Hecke…
We obtain a first moment formula for Rankin-Selberg convolution $L$-series of holomorphic modular forms or Maass forms of arbitrary level on $GL(2)$, with an orthonormal basis of Maass forms. One consequence is the best result to date, uniform in level, spectral value and weight, for the equality of two Maass or holomorphic cusp forms if their Rankin-Selberg convolutions with the orthonormal basis of Mass forms $u_j$ is equal at the center of the critical strip for sufficiently many $u_j$. The main novelty of our approach is the new way the error terms are treated. They are brought into an exa…
In this paper, we establish bounds of the Rankin-Selberg $L$-function for $SL(2)$ using the supnorm of the Eisenstein series and a purely representation theoretic index over the real group. Consequently, we obtain a subconvexity bound $L(\frac{1}{2}+ it, f_1 \times f_2) \leq C (1+ |t|)^{\frac{5}{6}+ε}$ for two Maass cusp forms of $SL(2, \mathbb Z)$.
Many important analytic statements about automorphic forms, such as the analytic continuation of certain L-functions, rely on the well-known rapid decay of K-finite cusp forms on Siegel sets. We extend this here to prove a more general decay statement along sets much larger than Siegel sets, and furthermore state and prove the decay for smooth but not necessarily K-finite cusp forms. We also state a general theorem about the convergence of Rankin-Selberg integrals involving unipotent periods, closing a gap in the literature on L-functions. These properties serve as the analytic basis of a new …
This is a survey of recent work on values of Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions of pairs of cohomological automorphic representations that are {\it critical} in Deligne's sense. The base field is assumed to be a CM field. Deligne's conjecture is stated in the language of motives over $\QQ$, and express the critical values, up to rational factors, as determinants of certain periods of algebraic differentials on a projective algebraic variety over homology classes. The results that can be proved by automorphic methods express certain critical values as (twisted) period integrals of automorphic forms. …
For a $p$-adic local field $F$ of characteristic 0, with residue field $\mathfrak{f}$, we prove that the Rankin-Selberg gamma factor of a pair of level zero representations of linear general groups over $F$ is equal to a gamma factor of a pair of corresponding cuspidal representations of linear general groups over $\mathfrak{f}$. Our results can be used to prove a variant of Jacquet's conjecture.
Let $F$ be a $p$-adic field and $E/F$ be a quadratic extension. In this paper, we prove the stability of Rankin-Selberg gamma factors for $\textrm{Sp}_{2n}(F)$, $\widetilde {\textrm{Sp}}_{2n}(F)$ and $\textrm{U}_{E/F}(n,n)$ when the characteristic of the residue field of $F$ is not $2$.
The Rankin-Selberg integral of Kohnen and Skoruppa produces the Spin $L$-function for holomorphic Siegel modular forms of genus two. In this paper, we reinterpret and extend their integral to apply to arbitrary cuspidal automorphic representations of $\mathrm{PGSp}_4$. We show that the integral is related to a non-unique model and analyze it using the approach of Piatetski-Shapiro and Rallis.
We use the uniqueness of various invariant functionals on irreducible unitary representations of PGL(2,R) in order to deduce the classical Rankin-Selberg identity for the sum of Fourier coefficients of Maass cusp forms and its new anisotropic analog. We deduce from these formulas non-trivial bounds for the corresponding unipotent and spherical Fourier coefficients of Maass forms. As an application we obtain a subconvexity bound for certain L-functions. Our main tool is the notion of Gelfand pair.
This document describes the authors' current research project: the evaluation of a tower of Rankin-Selberg integrals on the group E_6. We recall the notion of a tower, and two known towers, making observations about how the integrals within a tower may be related to one another via formal manipulations, and offering a heuristic for how the L-functions should be related to one another when the integrals are related in this way. A detailed description of the E_6 tower is then given.
Inspired by a construction of Bump, Friedberg, and Ginzburg of a two-variable integral representation on $\mathrm{GSp}_4$ for the product of the standard and spin $L$-functions, we give two similar multivariate integral representations. The first is a three-variable Rankin-Selberg integral for cusp forms on $\mathrm{PGL}_4$ representing the product of the $L$-functions attached to the three fundamental representations of the Langlands $L$-group $\mathrm{SL}_4(\mathbf{C})$. The second integral, which is closely related, is a two-variable Rankin-Selberg integral for cusp forms on $\mathrm{PGU}(2…
We study the local zeta integrals attached to a pair of generic representations $(π,τ)$ of $GL_n\times GL_m$, $n>m$, over a $p$-adic field. Through a process of unipotent averaging we produce a pair of corresponding Whittaker functions whose zeta integral is non-zero, and we express this integral in terms of the Langlands parameters of $π$ and $τ$. In many cases, these Whittaker functions also serve as a test vector for the associated Rankin-Selberg (local) $L$-function.
We present a pairing of automorphic distributions that applies in situations where a Lie group acts with an open orbit on a product of generalized flag varieties. The pairing gives meaning to an integral of products of automorphic distributions on these varieties. This generalizes classical integral representations or "Rankin-Selberg integrals" of L-functions, and gives new constructions and analytic continuations of automorphic L-functions. Keywords: Automorphic forms, invariant pairings, automorphic distributions, L-functions, analytic continuation, rapid decay.
Let $π_1,π_2$ be a pair of cuspidal complex, or $\ell$-adic, representations of the general linear group of rank $n$ over a non-archimedean local field $F$ of residual characteristic $p$, different to $\ell$. Whenever the local Rankin-Selberg $L$-factor $L(X,π_1,π_2)$ is nontrivial, we exhibit explicit test vectors in the Whittaker models of $π_1$ and $π_2$ such that the local Rankin-Selberg integral associated to these vectors and to the characteristic function of $\mathfrak{o}_F^n$ is equal to $L(X,π_1,π_2)$. We give an initial application of the test vectors to reduction modulo $\ell$ of $\…
Period relations for Rankin-Selberg convolutions for $\mathrm{GL}(n)\times\mathrm{GL}(n)$
Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Zhejiang University（浙江大学数学高等研究院）；School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University（浙江大学数学系）；Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics and New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Zhejiang University（浙江大学数学高等研究院与新Cornerstone科学实验室）
In this paper, we partially complete the local Rankin-Selberg theory of Asai $L$-functions and $ε$-factors as introduced by Flicker and Kable. In particular, we establish the relevant local functional equation at Archimedean places and prove the equality between Rankin-Selberg's and Langlands-Shahidi's $ε$-factors at every place. Our proofs work uniformly for any characteristic zero local field and use as only input the global functional equation and a globalization result for a dense subset of tempered representations that we infer from work of Finis-Lapid-Müller. These results are used in an…
Let $π$ and $τ$ be a smooth generic representation of ${\rm SO}_5$ and ${\rm GL}_2$ respectively over a non-archimedean local field. Assume that $π$ is irreducible and $τ$ is irreducible or induced of Langlands' type. We show that the $L$- and $ε$-factors attached to $π\timesτ$ defined by the Rankin-Selberg integrals and the associated Weil-Deligne representation coincide. Similar compatibility results are also obtained for the local factors defined by the Novodvorsky's local zeta integrals attached to generic representations of ${\rm GSp}_4\times{\rm GL}_2$.
We construct analogues of Rankin--Selberg integrals for Speh representations of the general linear group over a $p$-adic field. The integrals are in terms of the Shalika model and are expected to be the local counterparts of (suitably regularized) global integrals involving square-integrable automorphic forms and Eisenstein series on the general linear group over a global field. We relate the local integrals to the classical ones studied by Jacquet--Piatetski-Shapiro--Shalika. We also introduce a unitary structure for Speh representation on the Shalika model, as well as various other models in…
Recently Atobe-Oi-Yasuda established the newform theory for irreducible tempered generic representations of unramified ${\rm U}_{2n+1}$ over non-archimedean local fields. In this paper we extend their result to every irreducible generic representations and compute the dimensions of the spaces of oldforms. We also compute the Rankin-Selberg integrals attached to newforms and oldforms under a natural assumption on the $γ$-factors defined by these integrals.
The aim of this article is to study rank-one Eisenstein cohomology for the group GL(N)/F, where F is a totally real field extension of Q. This is then used to prove rationality results for ratios of successive critical values for Rankin-Selberg L-functions for GL(n) x GL(n') over F with the parity condition that nn' is even. The key idea is to interpret Langlands's constant term theorem in terms of Eisenstein cohomology.
Let $π$ be an irreducible admissible (complex) representation of $GL(2)$ over a non-archimedean characteristic zero local field with odd residual characteristic. In this paper we prove the equality between the local symmetric square $L$-function associated to $π$ arising from integral representations and the corresponding Artin $L$-function for its Langlands parameter through the local Langlands correspondence. With this in hand, we show the stability of local symmetric $γ$-factors attached to $π$ under highly ramified twists.
We extend the Fourier expansion of automorphic functions of Piateski-Shapiro and Shalika in a way that the Euclidean algorithm appears nontrivially. Then, we discuss a potential application in the Rankin-Selberg method.
We prove a prime number theorem first for the classical Rankin-Selberg L-function $L(s,π\timesπ')$ over any Galois extension with $π$ and $π'$ unitary automorphic cuspidal representations of $GL_n$ and $GL_m$ respectively with at least one of the representations subject to a self-contragredient assumption. We then extend these results to two representations $π$ defined on $GL_n/E$ and $π'$ defined on $GL_m/F$ with $E$ and $F$ cylic algebraic number fields of coprime degree where $π$ and $π'$ admit a base change lift from $\mathbb{Q}$ again given a self-contragredient assumption on at least one…
This is an announcement of results on rank-one Eisenstein cohomology of GL(N), with N > 1 an odd integer, and algebraicity theorems for ratios of successive critical values of certain Rankin-Selberg L-functions for GL(n) x GL(n') when n is even and n' is odd.
We unconditionally construct cyclotomic p-adic L-functions for Rankin-Selberg convolutions for GL(n+1) x GL(n) over arbitrary number fields, and show that they satisfy an expected functional equation.
We prove Siegel-Walfisz type theorems (over long and short intervals) for the Fourier coefficients of certain automorphic $L$-functions and Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions over number fields.
We establish the universality theorem for the first four symmetric power L-functions of automorphic forms and their associated Rankin-Selberg L-functions. This generalizes some results of Laurincikas & Matsumoto and Matsumoto respectively.
Eisenstein series are ubiquitous in the theory of automorphic forms. The traditional proofs of the meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein series, due to Selberg and Langlands, start with cuspidal Eisenstein series as a special case, and deduce the general case from spectral theory. We present a "soft" proof which relies only on rudimentary Fredholm theory (needed only in the number field case). It is valid for Eisenstein series induced from an arbitrary automorphic form. The proof relies on the principle of meromorphic continuation. It is close in spirit to Selberg's later proofs.
Let $F$ be a $p$-adic field and $π$ be an irreducible smooth representation of $\textrm{Sp}_{2n}(F)$. In this paper, we show that if $π$ and $π^κ$ are both generic for a common generic character of the maximal unipotent of a fixed Borel, then $π\cong π^κ$, where $π^κ$ is the representation induced by the conjugation action of an element $κ\in \textrm{GSp}_{2n}(F)$. This result is a consequence of the standard local Langlands conjecture and local Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture. As a consequence, we extend the dependence relation of the local Rankin-Selberg gamma factors for $\textrm{Sp}_{2n}\times…
We consider certain Dirichlet series of Selberg type, constructed from periods of automorphic forms. We study analytic properties of these Dirichlet series and show that they have analytic continuation to the whole complex plane.
In the 80s, Zagier and Jacquet-Zagier tried to derive the Selberg trace formula by applying the Rankin-Selberg method to the automorphic kernel function. Their derivation was incomplete due to a puzzle of the computation of a residue. We solve this puzzle and complete the derivation. The main input is an extension of the theory of regularized integrals invented by Zagier, which is of independent interest.
An overview of the classical Rankin-Selberg problem involving the asymptotic formula for sums of coefficients of holomorphic cusp forms is given. We also study the function $Δ(x;ξ) (0\leξ\le1)$, the error term in the Rankin-Selberg problem weighted by $ξ$-th power of the logarithm. Mean square estimates for $Δ(x;ξ)$ are proved.
We prove an algebraicity result for the central critical value of certain Rankin-Selberg L-functions for GL(n) x GL(n-1). This is a generalization and refinement of some results of Harder, Kazhdan-Mazur-Schmidt, Mahnkopf, and Kasten-Schmidt. As an application of this result, we prove algebraicity results for certain critical values of the fifth and the seventh symmetric power L-functions attached to a holomorphic cusp form. Assuming Langlands functoriality one can prove similar algebraicity results for the special values of any odd symmetric power L-function. We also prove a conjecture of Blas…
